Uruguay | Labor Inspection updates Occupational Risk Prevention Plan

Uruguay | Labor Inspection updates Occupational Risk Prevention Plan

The Labor Inspection (IT) announced the criteria that it will use to control the Occupational Risk Plan (PRL). According to Decree 52/023, companies that employ between 5 and 50 workers must prepare the ORP carried out by a technician with a qualifying title (preventionist technician, occupational health technologist, among others), which must have the content indicated there.

The IT explains and develops the content that the PRL must have, in accordance with the following:

1. Description of the activities carried out by the company.
2. Hazard identification.
3. Risk assessment and its results by recognized and specific methods. The IT clarifies that it must be taken into account that prior to the risk assessment, an evaluation of compliance with the legal requirements that are applicable to the company and its activities should be carried out.
4. Proposed corrective measures.
5. Compliance schedule
6. Date of completion and date of the next scheduled review (minimum every six months).
7. In the document, the responsible technician must indicate whether or not he recommends the need to have a Greeting Prevention Service at Work regulated in Decree 127/014.
8. Signature and identifying data of the technician responsible for the document.
9. Signature of the owner or legal representative of the company in the PRL.
10. Proof of presentation and treatment of the ORP in the field of bipartite cooperation (Occupational Health and Safety Commission). If this bipartite scope was not established, the company must present a declaration in this regard and proof of communication to the PRL workers.

For more information contact:

Carla Arellano  | Counselor Ferrere | carellano@ferrere.com

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Paraguay | New inspection, inspection and labor surveillance procedures

Paraguay | New inspection, inspection and labor surveillance procedures

The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security established the modification of labor inspection, inspection and surveillance procedures. In that sense, it revoked Resolution 1655/2022 and article 17 of Resolution 56/2017, which provided for the administrative and procedural procedures for requesting and verifying documents of mandatory physical possession.

Resolution 1655/2022 established that notifications issued within the framework of inspections in relation to the requirements for the presentation of mandatory possession documentation must have prior authorization from the general director of the General Directorate of Labor Inspection and Supervision (DGIFT). .

Article 17 of Resolution 56/2017 established that the Director General of the DGIFT could request preventively, through notes of requirement or collated to employers, the presentation of mandatory possession documentation, within a specified period, for the purposes of verify compliance with labor standards and Occupational Health and Safety. It also established that, in the event of non-submission of the requested documentation, the Director of the DGIFT may request an inspection order for its completion.

In this sense, the new provisions of the MTESS regarding inspection, inspection and labor surveillance procedures establish that:

Mandatory labor documentation should not be required from any company nationwide for notes, notifications, other documents or procedures other than within the framework of actions authorized by an Inspection Order issued by the Highest Institutional Authority – the Minister of I work, currently Monica Recalde.
As of August 18, 2023, no notification of documentary requirements within the framework of the repealed resolutions is valid.

Mandatory possession documents may be presented electronically. This point is currently pending implementation.

Additionally, the MTESS mentions that they are working on the preparation of an Inspection Manual.

For more information contact:

Carla Arellano  | Counselor Ferrere | carellano@ferrere.com

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Uruguay | Online report of suspicious transactions by the non-financial sector

Uruguay | Online report of suspicious transactions by the non-financial sector

In October 2021, the Central Bank of Uruguay issued Communication 2021/199, where in reference to the Financial Information and Analysis Unit, it enables and regulates the digital presentation of the report form for unusual or suspicious transactions by the subjects obligors of the non-financial sector (article 13 of Law No. 19,574).

Through the following link you can access the instructions for sending the aforementioned reports, prepared by the Central Bank of Uruguay.

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